Category: Assessment

Students lose SO many exam points because they just don’t read the directions and pay attention to details. On the first exam, they usually discover this … but they don’t REMEMBER it for the other exams. This is a very simple exercise that takes about 1 minute at the beginning of the test. Just have the students repeat after you: I promise … to read all the directions … for all the problems on the exam … And if I finish early, … I promise … to RE-read all the directions … to make sure I haven’t missed some...

Last week I prepared a new presentation for the MichMATYC conference based partially on the literature review for my dissertation. In my dissertation I am studying instructors, but in this talk I addressed both the instructor and the student side. It was also the first presentation I’ve built using Prezi, and it was interesting to re-think presentation design using a new tool. Of course, the presentation misses something without the accompanying verbal descriptions, but there is enough information on here that you can begin to understand the problem (we don’t actually know much) and the solution (common language, common measurement tools). There are also a few new cartoons/illustrations in this presentation. I’ve started just paying for a couple of illustrations per presentation to help viewers to understand (and mostly to remember) difficult concepts. Just to give you a rough idea in the time involved to create something like this, I spent about 18 hours on the Prezi build (which doesn’t even begin to account for the time spent doing the research). How can we Measure Teaching and Learning in Math? Possibly Related Posts: Group Exploration in Math Elaborations for Creative Thinking in STEM Clickety Click Click: Awful Measures for Learning Learning Math is Not a Spectator Sport Recorded Webinar: Teaching Math in...